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termination " huish" is the Anglo Saxon " hiwisc," 1 

 which signifies a family property, and which occasionally 

 is used as an equivalent to a hide of land. Our word hive 

 (whence, through an intermediate form hiven-ig, comes 

 hunig==honey) is etymolog-ically connected with it. There 

 is no such tenant as Harding named in Domesday, but, 

 on referring* to the entry concerning Tedelintone 

 (Titherington Lucas, W. Domesd. 84), a neighbouring 

 estate, you find the record describing the tenant at that 

 time as Willelmus " Durus." Is it just possible that this 

 word Burns is an attempt to translate the English name 

 Hard-mg ? If so, it is interesting to see that the name 

 existed in the neighbourhood of which we are speaking. 



Rushmere ; — this is an estate on the borders of Dorset, forming 

 part of the present parish of Tollard Royal. Under 

 Tollard in Domesday Book we have one Bozo (W. 

 Domesd. 73), the tenant in the days of the Confessor of 

 two hides and a half. I submit, as a possible etymology 

 for the present name, Bozo-mere, the latter portion of the 

 word meaning " boundary." 



Sarisberie ; — this is the Domesday Name for what we call Old 

 Sarum (W. Domesd. 23) . The Eomans called this place 

 Sorbiodunum. I cannot bring myself to believe that 

 Sarum is simply the contraction of the Latin name. 

 Indeed, I have never yet seen an etymology suggested 

 that was satisfactory. The oldest spelling is found in the 

 Saxon Chronicle, where, in describing a battle in the 

 neighbourhood in the middle of the sixth century, it is 

 called Searo-byrig (Chron. Sax. A 0 . 552). But as no 

 portion of the Saxon Chronicle was compiled till the end 

 of the ninth century, this entry simply proves that, 

 about A.D. 900, such spelling represented the pronuncia- 

 tion of the word at that time. Till the time of Bishop 



1 The Iwis of the Wilts Domesd. (p. 144) is the modem Hnish Doignel. 

 In like manner the Hiwis of the Somerset Domesday is the modern Iluish 

 Champflower. " Collinson," iii., 509, 530. 



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